I love expectation beauty subsumedw/ meaning I mistook for wantlorn and muscled on my cherry tablew/ nine kinds of breadI could be so lovely I could be so regularand fake w/ watery hosannasmy onliest wants fear me whileI hold my glads the moment coronetedin editioned fact another dayanother issue sentences ofinverse proportion watching the owlw/ a broken spine flap herself by the bushesmade me guess at my deathmy duty to you and you

Katherine Gibbel is from Brooklyn, New York. She has received fellowships from the VermontStudio Center and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received her MFA in poetry. Her workhas been published in Bat City Review, The Bennington Review, Tin House, Underblong, and elsewhere.